Brief communication: Cutmarks on a plio-pleistocene hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 579-584

  Pickering, Travis Rayne ^a,b   White, Tim D ^c   Toth, Nicholas ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Butchery; Cutmarks; Stw 53; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; HOMINID; MANDIBLE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MAXILLA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; SKULL; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0034082825     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(200004)111:4<579::AID-AJPA12>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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